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Just arrived in Berlin! Still a bit exhausted of a very short night after a successful Streetlab Business Case talk show. Last blog-posts I dropped some links and pictures of my own talk, and now some more of the other guests. EnYOI!

Strawberry Earth’s Film Festival video by Alexis Blake from Strawberry Earth on Vimeo.

Amongst an informal setting with approximately 40 visitors, journalist Simone Weimans interviewed Ikenna Azuike from Strawberry Earth about their kool carrotmobs, Dutch Environmental Film Festival, upcoming fashion events and their vision and strategy on using social media and a creative network to paint the world stylish and green.

Otto von Bush, well known of his work and visions as an artist, activist and fashion theorist gave us a very inspiring talk by skype video conference call. He is a very enthusiastic entertaining speaker and we received some good responses of the audience. Check out his ideas and workshops about ‘hacking the system in fashion’ at his site Selfpassage.

Holly Syrett talked about the Green Fashion Competition which will be launched next week 16 July during Amsterdam International Fashion Week.  The entrepreneurs behind the ‘co-designed sneaker’ label !SYOU, Jaap and Merijn, told their alluring story about their broad and international network of talented souls.

Visual via: THEKEY.TO ACCELERATION features New York artist, Jeremy Dean and his series “Back To The Futurama.”

By checking out the websites of the winning events that I will visit these next two days : TheKey, GREEN Showroom and Berlinordik, it makes me happy to get this MEGA boot of energy! Yeah guys, Berlin is HOT when we are talking about the Green Revolution! Keep you posted on my findings. (see as well the BERLIN tips on Ecofashionworld).

Love theKEY Theme: ‘THEKEY.TO celebrates its third edition with the motto ACCELERATION. This concept aims to provoke a new perspective on green products. No longer are they an economic side issue, but instead they are innovative, breaking the boundaries both technologically and aesthetically.’

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Did you also grew up with those tough transformers? According to the designers of Studio Re-Creation Jennifer Kanary and Nikola Nikolov anyone should give their first car a second life. This art sculpture is created out of their first lada.  Mission is to create new objects out of anything that is no longer being used. This week you can admire these Dutch design pieces at the platform Tuttobene during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, the world’s most important design fair.

With “Caleidoscope” product designer Frederike Top indulges in her fascination with light. Though the outside of the lamp looks almost industrial, the inside is a play with light and colors, similar to those of a real kaleidoscope.

Frans Willigers will show his bench for public spaces called “Graffitti” The bench is designed as a stylish “tag” that adds graphic lines to any landscape. Although originally created as street furniture, the design is also suitable for indoor events such as fairs. Currently, the bench is made out of coated waterproof multiplex, but studies show that different materials can be used.

///ORGANIC POPCORN MOMENT

At 16 January Strawberry Earth Hotel Crash took place in Amsterdam. Read more at this post. Enjoy the video!

///DESIGN Interior

Following Horsehair weaver Marianne Kemp, for two years now, still get really excited to see her new admirable designs. Together with felt specialist Anneke van Hoogervorst she created a new series of textiles: horsehair in combination with felt and a new line of Woven Wool. Horsehair has different characteristics compared to wool, for example the shine, strength and touch. Read more @ Materia.nl

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Well, it is probably to late to join this competition for this year (you have a few hours left..), but keep an eye on the winning designers. The Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition was created in 2003 to promote activism, social involvement, and entrepreneurship in young designers. Metropolis saw the need for a new type of competition, one that went beyond the usual beauty pageants for finished projects, a competition that would generate and reward ideas.

The winning concept of Metropolis’s 2009 Next Generation competition weds two common aspects of the landscape: electrical-transmission towers and wind turbines.

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